Petals ESB

Petals ESB

Developer(s)	OW2 & Petals Link
Stable release	3.0 / November 24, 2009; 22 months ago (2009-11-24)
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	enterprise service bus
License	LGPL 2.0
Website	http://petals.ow2.org

Petals ESB is an open source ESB developed by the OW2 Consortium. It is a tool for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It is standard, modular, and physically distributed, to adapt to large scale infrastructures.

Petals ESB is based on JBI (JSR 208) industry specification. It was the first ESB certified by Sun Microsystems under the JSR 208 TCK.^[1] Based on standards, it also supports SOA standards such as BPEL and SCA, and includes EDA capabilities.

Fractal deployment framework,^[2] JBI pluggable components, and open source licensing make it modular and customizable.

The originality of Petals is to implement a highly distributed topology^[3]. The first stable version of Petals ESB, called PEtALS, was released on September 21, 2006 ^[4].

Features

PEtALS main technical features :

• Scalable for large architectures, due to distributed topology
• JBI certified by Sun Microsystems
• Development tools: JBI component framework, eclipse configuration plugin, registry
• Quality of service: High availability (load balancing), Persistence, Transaction, Security,
• Adaptable: Fractal modular framework, JBI plugins
• Connectors: SOAP (Web services), Local File, FTP/SFTP, HTTP, JMS, SMTP/POP/IMAP, JDBC/SQL, EJB, Xquare database. Compatible with JBI plugins.
• Processing components : BPEL, SCA, XSLT, XSD, EIP, POJO/JSR181, WS-Notification, RMI, Java scripting, CSV transformation, Quartz, KPI Notifications

See also

• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Enterprise Messaging System
• Message Oriented Middleware
• Mule
• Servicemix
• OpenESB
• Guaraná DSL

References

1. ^ (2008), Christophe Hamerling, PEtALS Certified JSR-208 by SUN Microsystem
2. ^ Fractal Deployment Framework, open source extensible component-based framework to deploy distributed and heterogeneous software systems
3. ^ (2008) Adrien Louis, ESB Topology alternatives, InfoQ
4. ^ (2006) Adrien Louis, PEtALS 1.0 community announcement, OW2 mailing list archive

External links

• ESB White paper, Adrien Louis, EBM Websourcing
• article: Open Source Middleware tends PEtALS, CNET, Matthew Broersma, 26 October 2006
• announcement: Version 2.0 of PEtALS ESB available